title: Intense iodine activity caused by mosquito bite.
abstract: A 12-year-old girl with a history of papillary thyroid cancer underwent radioiodine remnant ablation using (131)I. Posttherapy whole-body (131)I scintigraphy revealed not only the known activity in the neck but also increased activity in the superficial posterior right upper thigh. On further clinical evaluation, the patient was found to have a mosquito bite with surrounding hyperemia at the site of the abnormal activity.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China; and †Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Gauri
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tilak
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: Hongming
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhuang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary; D002648:Child; D009033:Culicidae / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007455:Iodine; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D000077273:Thyroid Cancer, Papillary; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D007455:Iodine